Understanding Giving
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Understanding Giving
Understanding Giving
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.
INTRODUCTION:
The Bible says there is a blessing in tithing.
The promise is that if we will bring our tithe to the storehouse, God will open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing that we can't contain.
ABRAHAM STARTED IT
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Some say that tithing is under the law, but long before the law was given Abraham had been to deliver his nephew Lot from the enemy and was returning when Melchizedek, king of Salem met him. Melchizedek was the priest of the most high God and a type of Jesus.
The Word says Abraham gave tithes of all.
JACOB CONTINUED IT
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
After Jacob had the vision of the heavenly ladder, he awoke, and said Surely the Lord is in this place: and he placed a stone at the place and called it Bethel.
There Jacob made a vow to God.
MOSES INCORPORATED IT
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.
After the law was given to Moses, God called him back to the mountain to give him directions for building the tabernacle, a place where God could meet with man. For the building and support of the tabernacle God commanded that the people give a tenth of all they had and Moses incorporated this commandment into the law.
MALACHI COMMANDED IT
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be meat in mine house,
And prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts,
If I will not open you the windows of heaven,
And pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Malachi is telling God's people to return to the Lord and he ask the question Will a man rob God? and then says that a man robs God in tithes and offerings. Then Malachi commands them to tithe.
JESUS COMMENDED IT
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Jesus was denouncing the Scribes and Pharisees for their religious acts that had no depth. He accused them of outward acts but no inward truth.
He said they had done some of the things but left undone weightier matters.
Jesus makes it clear that while there are more important things we should never leave tithing out.
GOD ORDAINED IT
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Paul, writing to the church of Corinth was telling them that they should support the work of spreading the gospel, because God had ordained it that way.
PAUL EXPLAINED IT
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
As Paul continues his letter to the Corinthians, he explains the way to give and when to give.